Huang yuan rice fruit has a long history, as early as in the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde years was listed as tribute, is the Gannan Hakka people are very favorite food and gifts to guests of the top quality goods.

Huang yuan rice fruit originally processed with large grams of rice, yellow gas aroma quality soft. 60 years after more refined with round-grained rice, cumbersome process. Now all over the world are changed to machine production, every year in the month of wax there are yellow Yuanmiguo market. The production of yellow yuan rice fruit to first use the yellow yuan firewood ash plus boiling water filtered into gray water, cooled soaked rice overnight, the next day with a retort steamed into rice, and then the rice mixed with gray water, spread out to dry and then steamed placed in a large mortar, with a hard miscellaneous sticks pounded into a group, after the pestle, hand rubbing evenly, cut into various shapes of the rice fruit. Because of the cumbersome work, often have to neighbors and friends to help before they start to do. Mechanism after the prevalence of yellow yuan rice fruit, folk still have a few families in the winter handmade yellow yuan rice fruit. Do a good job of the yellow Yuanmiguo color yellow taste fresh, usually with gray water soaked, hidden in the jar, can be left until the next summer. Some of them are chopped and dried in the sun, and then fried in the sand or deep-fried to make various types of fruit products. With soft and tender, smoky flavor fresh, refreshing and long storage characteristics.

Ganxian yellow yuan rice fruit has been successfully included in the third batch of Ganzhou City intangible cultural heritage protection list.